EL HAIRAN, ZOUHAIR
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Zouhair El Hairan attained a Bachelor's Degree in Media and Communication from Pompeu Fabra University, and a Master's Degree in Arabic and Islamic Studies from the University of Barcelona. He is also about to finish the Master's Degree in 'Politics/Current Democracies: Nationalism & Multiculturalism' at Pompeu Fabra University.
Zouhair is the Secretary of the Euro-Arab youth organization. He is also a member of the Journalists Institute of Catalonia and the Young Group of the UNESCO Association for Inter-religious Dialogue (AUDIR). He is the former President of the Moroccan Students Association in Catalonia, and participated in the “Access BCN”, a project led by the International Organization for Migration to empower young immigrants to become politically active.
He has given lectures on issues related to immigration, the Islamic-Arabic world and the media.
RESEARCH LINES:
The Moroccan youth diaspora transnational entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship projects for the development of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM)
The political transnationalism participation
Islam and Media in Spain and Europe